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Show - -m . Review - Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1988 - Page 3 Candidates express views as election nears for u Kartchner, candidate from District 59, had a statement read as he was unable to attend . In s marks, David Harvey qT"1! Rnt !lid that the Alpine School Board has worked hard the past four years to turn around the district y mrale in the He said there are 37,000 students, stu-dents, 41 school buildings, 125,000 people live within the the district boundaries, and there are 1,300 teachers in Alpine District. He added that Alpine District students taking the AP and ACT tests are 20 per cent above the national average and 10 per cent above the Utah average. j Sre 16 schools on ex tended day or year round schedules. sched-ules. Richard Gappnmayer said that the district has highly qualified teachers and leaders and they are highly motivated. , usual small crowd was out Wsday night to hear candi-for candi-for state senate, state repre- , ves board of education and commission express their to the election slated for ' K meeting sponsored by the ,1,. " ' " Grove PTA Council at ?!iltGrove Junior High School : ?ildidates spoke for five min-ch min-ch and then responded to aSi ;iiLs from the audience. ff attendance were Craig Peter-ill Peter-ill Indidate for the state senate ."l Jstricti4;DonLeBaronand lt; ''J1 Laursen, candidates for the Jr 0f Representatives from ?St 58; John Valentine and fa 4an Jarman, candidates for f House of Representatives from ct 59; Glen Hawkins and Sid --dberg. Utah County Commis- and Richard Gappmayer, F. 1 .tdy Cherry, David Harvey and VVon Bennett, candidates for the ik ,-pine School Board. He reiterated that the students in the district are tops in the state in ACT and AP tests. "We have as good of students as you'll find anywhere in the United States and we do it for less per student than all but one district in the state," he noted. He said they are always looking for ways to save money. He explained ex-plained that last year they had requests for over $7 million in buildingrepairs but only $2 million could be done. He said that the district has 25 administrators now, this is much less than a few years ago. There is one administrator over 30 elementary elemen-tary schools, one administrator over the secondary schools and in most other districts there would be at least three administrators in each. J. Von Bennett said he is a concerned con-cerned retired teacher. He is concerned con-cerned about reducing taxes. The property tax is high in this area because of the number of children in the district. He noted that he feels that things can be done and would like to look closer at things that are taking place. Bennett added that he thinks things can be changed to save a little money. As a teacher he has seen some of the problems and because he has been a teacher he thinks he can help in areas such as teacher and student morale. F. Hardy Cherry said the district dis-trict must be focused on educating the students. Board members should be leading the school district dis-trict rather than following the administration. He said that teachers should be spending their time on teaching rather than worrying about where the money will be coming from. "In case the tax initiatives pass, the board will have to be prepared to cut about $4 million," he noted. He said that he has a plan of how cuts canbemadeif necessary without with-out cutting teachers salaries, etc. Don LeBaron, incumbent, said that the quality of education was of major concern. He added that before the last tax increase, he and Sen. Paul Rogers sent out a questionnaire to those in the district and the people said they wanted them to keep the costs down but at the same time to save the educational system. La Von Laursen said she is concerned con-cerned about the elderly because they are such a large part of the population now. She is concerned about drugs, the economy, attracting large businesses, busi-nesses, tourism and education. She said that the world depends on the education of the children. Glen Hawkins, Benjamin, said his background was in industry and agriculture. He would like to work on the Foster Grandparent program which brings a love to children which no one else can. He would like to keep an open line to the senior citizens. He noted that he would care equally about the cities and the unincorporated areas. He believes in the Gentlemen's Agreement which allows for a representative rep-resentative on the county commission commis-sion from the north, south and central parts of the county. He said he would not accept a pay raise while in office. Sid Sandberg, Orem, said he is the only Republican Candidate with an opponent. He said he is concerned about how the tax payers pay-ers money is spent. His background is in business. He said he is a fiscal conservative conserva-tive and would see that tax dollars are spent wisely. He added that he felt that he could represent the entire county. He supports good law enforcement and said that drugs need to be eliminated. |